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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | William Henry Toovey Hawley, correspondence and papers related to the South Western District (includes unions in Dorset, Southampton, Sussex and Wiltshire) |
| Reference | MH 32/42 |
| Date | 1853-1857 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Returns Form; Report; Map |
| Collection | MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904 |
| Series Description | This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. The series also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors, and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of workhouses, a medical report on infant feeding and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840. |
| Document Description | Includes 'Agricultural Statistics for Hampshire and Wiltshire of 1854', returns of industrial teachers employed in various workhouses, and returns of employment and wages related to unions in Hampshire and Wiltshire. Also includes a 'Chart of the Island of Portsea and Portsmouth Harbour'. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Education and Children; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade |
| Keywords | agriculture labour industrial training teachers children education schools wages indoor relief outdoor relief district schools administration Board of Guardians discontent workhouse conditions pauperism able bodied population diet government acts Union organisation able bodied extra-parochial areas landowner vagrancy poor relief regulation economic depression |
| Country | England |
| County | Dorset Hampshire (including Isle of Wight) Sussex Wiltshire |
| Places | Blandford Poole Wareham Purbeck Wimborne Cranborne Shaftesbury Sturminster Alresford Alton Alverstoke and Gosport Andover Basingstoke Catherington Christchurch Droxford Fareham Farnborough Fordingbridge Hartley Wintney Havant Headley Hursley Kingsclere Lymington New Forest Petersfield Portsea Island Ringwood Romsey Southampton South Stoneham Stockbridge Whitchurch Isle of Wight New Winchester Arundel Chichester East Preston Horsham Midhurst Petworth Steyning Sutton Thakeham Westbourne Westhampnett Alderbury Amesbury Bradford Calne Chippenham Cricklade Wootton-Bassett Devizes Highworth Swindon Malmesbury Marlborough Melksham Mere Pewsey Salisbury Tisbury Warminster Westbury Wilton |
| People | Hawley, William Henry Toovey Boyle, Courtenay Lumley, William Golden Baines, Matthew Talbot |
| Library/Archive | The National Archives, UK |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Images including crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |